Auburn analyst joining on-field staff for Citrus Bowl game
By Andrew Olson
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With Gus Malzahn out and Bryan Harsin not yet in charge, Auburn enters the Citrus Bowl game against Northwestern with an open spot in its on-field coaching staff. Interim head coach Kevin Steele addressed the staff spot during his Wednesday media session.
During his press conference, Steele was asked about filling the spot opened by Malzahn’s vacancy. With Steele stepping into the interim coaching role, he decided to move a defensive analyst into an on-field role. Here’s the Q&A from the official transcript:
Q. I know you were talking about possibly moving an off-field coach into an on-field role for this game. Is that something you still foresee happening?
KEVIN STEELE: We did that, actually, just for a game day headset. And then we had a positive graduate assistant and so we had to get someone in that could coach the scout team.
So Brandon Fisher is going to move on to the active coaching roster. That’s more for a headset reason and communication on game day than it was actually coaching or coaching practice, because he helped run the scout team. But game day, we needed him on the headset because we are down one with the headset, obviously.
The son of former NFL head coach Jeff Fisher, Brandon Fisher joined the Auburn staff in March. He has prior experience as an NFL assistant and as defensive coordinator at Southern Utah.
The Citrus Bowl is set for 1 p.m. ET/noon CT from Orlando’s Camping World Stadium, airing on ABC.
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